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Trump camp just made a statment about Melania's speech. No acknowledgement it may have been plagiarism or that there is any controversy. Said it was

Posted by jnine Jul 18 '16, 22:55

a beautiful speech about Melania's experiences.

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finally. they learned how to answer a situation like a politician :( -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 23:05
this does suggest there were borrowed fragments. nm but: -- (link) - i.b! Jul 18, 23:02 5
- I don't see that in that statement at all. It says there were writers, but it doesn't say they borrowed from other people. -- nm - jnine Jul 18, 23:06 4
  - "inspirations... in some instances included fragments that reflected her own thinking" (but were not her own original thoughts) -- nm* - i.b! Jul 18, 23:08 3
    - That makes it sound like the speechwriters wrote fragments of it, not that it was stolen. -- nm - jnine Jul 18, 23:09 2
      - to me, it could go either/both ways. (+I think it was carefully crafted with intent.) -- nm* - i.b! Jul 18, 23:11 1
        
        Melania Trump Goes Both Ways!!!! -- nm - Peglegpete Jul 18, 23:13
Trump will go on FOX News tomorrow and all will be well. No questions about it -- nm - amoxy Jul 18, 22:59 1
- Fox had an Aryan youth commentator mention it appeared to be plagiarised and the other commentator ignored it completely. When they were putting head -- (edited) - jnine Jul 18, 23:02
...as a black woman growing up in Chicago. -- nm - . Jul 18, 22:57 2
- The SNL skit writes itself so easily, that they might as well skip the skit and write a skit about the skit they skipped. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 18, 22:58 1
  - I stand before you as a strong black woman married to the first black president -- nm - #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes Jul 18, 23:34

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Trump camp just made a statment about Melania's speech. No acknowledgement it may have been plagiarism or that there is any controversy. Said it was

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